Leaving The Discovery Undiscovered
Hollywood has an unnatural fondness for secular religiosity, desperately wanting the comfort of an afterlife without any of the specificity of an actual religious teaching. This is how we get...
View ArticleElsa Kroese
There are times in life and literature when the weight of history feels palpable and power resides not in overt displays of magic, but in the will and skill to achieve your goals. Elsa Kroese‘s...
View Article99 Reasons to Hate Section 31
While Paramount or Skydance or whatever is killing off Star Trek properties both good and bad, they’ve somehow managed to make good on a threat to release a new Star Trek property titled both...
View ArticleWah Chang
The world of Star Trek is a troubled, but ultimately utopian world of interspecies collaboration and peace, a stark counterpoint to the tumultuous 1960’s in which it was born. Thankfully, Paramount’s...
View ArticleCosmic Sin: Truth in Advertising
Many talented people worked to make Cosmic Sin a reality, and almost none of them should be blamed for the smoldering wreckage that it most definitely is. The actors had a job and did it, the visual...
View ArticleStar Trek: Lower Decks, the Cure for Kelvin
As the first fantastic season of Star Trek: Lower Decks comes to a close, it should be clear to any self-respecting Trek fan that it is all things good and pure from Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction...
View ArticleAbigail Larson
The 1800’s Romanticism has given us many great works of literature, but more than merely this, it helped to instill a deep and abiding appreciation of the union of scientific principles and the...
View ArticleStar Trek: Picard’s Problematic Foundations
I’ve been dreading Star Trek: Picard since I first heard it was in the works. I feared it would be a vanity project for a less than gracious actor focusing exclusively on the least engaging member the...
View ArticleWinona Nelson
The the interplay of chaos and order is responsible for everything you’ve ever known or experienced, from the creation of the universe to your most recent dream. Some might consider these forces at...
View ArticlePost-Blade Runner Science Fiction Standouts
A short while ago, The AV Club celebrated the release of Blade Runner 2049 with a list of The 35 best science-fiction movies since Blade Runner. I’ve added The Host to my must-see list, and will try...
View ArticleAlita’s Terrifying Transhumanism
The global box office returns have spoken, and Alita: Battle Angel is a resounding success. Yet, some were disturbed by certain inhuman aspects of Alita and her enhanced enemies. Perhaps some...
View ArticleThe Teen Titans’ Television Transformation
The Teen Titans have been around in comics and animation for over 50 years, but they’ve just made the jump to live action with the new DC Universe series Titans. If you’ve been following the group of...
View ArticleAnna Christenson
Fantasy has found many artistic settings over the years, from the classical high fantasy of faraway kingdoms, historical fantasy taking slight liberties with common knowledge, and even magic-infused...
View ArticleColossal Tackles Issues Large and Small
A quite peculiar movie was recently released from writer director Nacho Vigalondo, and even after you watch it — and you should — you may be at a loss to describe the experience. It’s most certainly a...
View ArticleStephanie Shimerdla
Once thought the bane of fine literature, science fiction has slowly seeped into the collective consciousness of the world, thanks in part to the success movies and videogames in the genre has enjoyed....
View ArticleMarvel Netflix Universe’s Super Humans
You’ve no doubt witnessed the spectacle that is The Marvel Cinematic Universe and seen the repercussions of a superpowered world, but have you experienced the infinitely more personal struggles of...
View ArticleNicole Cardiff
A situation that seems truly extraordinary to one person may be perfectly normal to another. In a land where magic is mundane and the fantastical is forgettable. Nicole Cardiff seems quite comfortable...
View ArticleChris Seaman
Most people forget the fairy tales they were told in their youth as they slowly grow older. A few lucky ones, however, take their favorite mythological memories with them on their wild, winding voyage...
View ArticleMr Robot’s Fantastic World of Science Fact
How can the most compelling work of speculative fiction of the summer not actually be science fiction? Mr. Robot shows we are already living in a science fiction dystopia, inextricably conjoined with...
View ArticleCasting Light on Vampires in the Shadows
While vampires have long been seen as the embodiment of suave sophistication and raw sexual energy, the new documentary What We Do in the Shadows may very well drive a stake in the heart of these...
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